The guide outlines “best practices, programs, strategies and policies” for creating safe, enjoyable and inspiring street spaces for children and their carers. It looks at streets that are “safe and healthy, comfortable and convenient, inspirational and educational – streets that better serve everyone.”
Global Designing Cities Initiative permanent chair, Janette Sadik-Khan, writes, “This guide integrates the best of what works in different countries and cultural contexts to create universal principles for streets based on their most vulnerable users.”
She says, “If you design a street that works for kids, you design a street that works for everyone. Designing, or redesigning urban streets through the lens of children shows why it is necessary to raise the bar for safety, accessibility and enjoyment.”
The authors explore children’s needs in urban streets, current challenges and how different ideas can create friendly streets to play, rest, and create.
“An environment rich with stimulation such as colors, patterns, and textures is a foundation for a child’s cognitive skills.”
The City of Newcastle, a harbour city in New South Wales, Australia, is announcing plans to develop a pollinator-friendly urban landscape that reconnects biodiversity corridors.
Newcastle Councillor Dr Elizabeth Adamczyk, also a lecturer in planning at Macquarie University with a PhD in human geography, shared her vision on ABC News.
“We are the first city in Australia to commit as a local government to being a pollinator-friendly city,” she said.
Adamczyk says Newcastle aims to support and enhance its biodiversity by bridging gaps in fragmented biodiversity networks through its Environment Strategy. She has tabled a proposal – unanimously supported by Council – to ensure the rapidly growing city is built with pollinating species in mind.
The proposal supports creating safe, friendly spaces for pollinators with native foliage corridors throughout the city, including on roadways, median strips, walls, balconies, rooftops, in gardens and parks, and along transport corridors.
Street Furniture Australia’s entire product range and manufacturing operation has received carbon neutral certification through Climate Active™. Achieving carbon neutral certification marks a significant milestone in our operation and the culmination of a four year long process of detailed measurement and analysis. Climate Active™ is the only Australian government-backed carbon neutral certification programme for businesses to measure, reduce, and offsets their carbon emissions. It is one of the most rigorous carbon-neutral programs in the world. An approved Emissions Reduction Strategy (ERS) is central to achieving certification through Climate Active. Street Furniture Australia has elected to use SBTi validated science-based targets to ensure their ERS is meaningful and aligns with the 2015 Paris Agreement – to limit global temperature rises to 1.5℃ above pre-industrial levels. For those emissions that can’t be …
Linea Bin is the newest addition to Street Furniture Australia’s minimalist Linea range. Built from stainless steel for strength, durability and a refined aesthetic, it has been thoughtfully designed with input from landscape architects and waste managers to deliver hygiene, accessibility and sustainability in the public realm. Built to LastA robust stainless steel frame and panel system ensures Linea Bin performs in high-traffic environments. A full-height stainless steel 316 piano hinge and splash tray provide exceptional strength, hygiene and corrosion resistance, withstanding daily impacts from trolleys and cleaning equipment. “Durability was paramount,” says Pearson Bulmer, Senior Industrial Designer at Street Furniture Australia. “Every detail needed to perform in the public realm for years to come – but also be designed for disassembly so parts can be repaired, replaced or recycled …
With the look and feel of natural timber, backed by 12 months of performance testing for the public realm, engineered wood joins Street Furniture Australia’s selection of batten materials. Designers and place custodians can now choose from three batten options to achieve a timber look: natural Spotted Gum hardwood, low maintenance aluminium Wood Without Worry, and engineered wood known as Onewood HRT. See our Engineered Wood: Onewood HRT brochure or book a presentation. What is engineered wood?Onewood HRT (Homogeneous Reconstituted Timber) is a solid engineered timber, made from fast-growing FSC certified poplar and eucalyptus fibres that are compressed under heat and pressure with a resin binder. It is solid throughout with an organic grain and, like real hardwood, can be sanded to refresh. Street Furniture Australia partners with a Singapore-based …
